# New LambdaCore database released

"George M. Ellenburg" (gme@nebula.ispace.com)
Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:22:36 PST

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    On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Judy Anderson wrote:

    >    Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 21:56:29 -0500 (GMT-0500)
    >    From: "G. Ellenburg" <gme@nebula.ispace.com>
    >
    >    Judy,
    > 	   Is it just me but there appears to be no more "@dig" or "help
    >    building" anymore in the new database!
    > 	   How does one create new rooms with the new core?  HELP! <g>
    >
    > Your problem is that the players you are creating (which is controlled
    > by $player_class) are simple $players, without building capability.
    > If you chparent these to $builder, they will be able to @dig.  If you
    > change the value of $player_class to $builder, then this will happen
    > by default.
    >
    > The help building problem is caused by a core extraction problem,
    > however, fortunately the actual help text *is* in the core, it just
    > isn't available to your programmers.  Execute the following on your
    > MOO (assuming you have not changed the property already---if so I will
    > assume you understand the help system well enough to modify these
    > instructions accordingly):
    >
    > ;$builder.help = $builder_help
    >
    > You see, the help system is itself object oriented, and has a
    > hierarchical nature which is controlled by the .help property on all
    > the ancestors of the player typing "help".  I'll fix the core
    > extraction process to not nuke $builder.help; I don't know why this
    > happened.
    >
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